The [Ohio Supreme] court ruled today in Columbus to accept the case involving two couples in Norwood in suburban Cincinnati. The families are challenging Norwood's plan to demolish their homes and others so that the Rookwood Partners development group can build the commercial property.

NoLandGrab: NLG readers may recall, the Norwood case is of interest to concerned Brooklynites since the details more closely mirror the Ratner land grab than the recently decided Kelo case.

A local politically-connected developer wants to expand his commercial real estate empire to the land adjacent to his current properties. The only problem is that the land isn't his, so the town got most of the residents to agree to sell their homes under threat of eminent domain and subsequently condemn the homes of the few remaining "holdouts" claiming that the neighborhood is "blighted."

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